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V HOOK. No. 501,320. P11611161 July 11, 1893.

UMTED STATES PATENT QFFIQE.

CORNELIUS J. BROSNAN, OF SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS.

HOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 501,320, dated July 11, 1893.

Application filed August 28, 1891. Serial No. 403,960- (No model.)

.To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CORNELIUS J. BROSNAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Springfield, in the county of Hampden and State of Massachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements in Hooks, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in a hook such as forms one member of a hookand-eye, and particularly to that class of such hooks wherein there is provided under the bill of the hook, and between the latter and the base of the hook, a part for closing the hook-opening, but which is capable of being sprung relative to the hook bill to permit of the engagement of the latter with the eye.

The object of the invention is to materially improve the construction of the hook whereby it is rendered more useful and valuable for the service imposed upon it, as will be hereinafter especially pointed out, and the invention consists in the peculiar and novel construction or formation of the hook from a single piece of wire all as hereinafter particularly and minutely described and specified in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings the hook is illustrated on an enlarged scale, Figure 1 being a perspective View. Fig. 2 is a side elevation. Fig. 3 is a bottom plan, and Fig. 4 is a top plan.

The hook regarded as a whole, is formed from a single piece of wire which is intermediately bent as at a, and the portions adjacent said bend are extended closely alongside of each other, and are together bent as at b, at a suitable distance from the bend, a, to form by the upper compound section the bill, cl, and by the lower compound section, the base, f. One of the lower sections, in part forming the base of the hook, is, at its extremity, turned as at g, to constitute one of the securing eyes. The other terminal portion of the wire, as it extends rearwardly, diverges with relation to the one comprising at its end the eye, g, and opposite said eye is outwardly and then inwardly turned to constitute the other eye, 9', the extreme end portion of this last named section of wire being carried inwardly between the diverged sections forming the base,

f, of the hook and is upwardly and forwardly and then downwardly and rearwardly turned to form the closed eye, m, under thebill-of the book, but well to the rear of the hook bend, b, the said eye standing in a plane which ranges longitudinally of the hook and which is at right angles to the hook-base.

The formation and disposition of the eye Well to the rearward of the hook while serving the usual hook closing function have advantages which influence the character, capabilities, or action of the other portions of the hook,-that is to say, the one terminal of the wire being forwardly and upwardly and then downwardly and rearwardly turned to form the eye, m, and lying by its extreme end against or very near to the back of the said eye, such end of the eye-forming wire is guarded against being caught upon by, or catching into, the c1oth,and there being considerable space within the hook between the hook bend and the closing-eye the security of the hook onto the fabric by thread passing across its base forward of the closing eye to confine the forward part of the hook down, as usual, may be insured without interfering with the spring action or retractile capabilities of the said closing-eye. Furthermore, owing to the particular form and location of the said hook-closing eye described, the members forming the said forward part of the hook base may lie closely together,

no space being required between them to aocommodate the said eye, m, and therefore the sections at the hook bend and forming the top of the hook may lie together as shown in the plan view Fig. 4, and unite to form avery strong book. The bill of the hook is flattened as shown in Figs. 2 and 4, the striking of which to impart such flattened condition so tempering the wire as to impart an unusual stiffness thereto,- which character is not however so marked in the hook-closing eye, and therefore the flexibility of the latter remains in the most eflicient degree. Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A hook member of a hook and eye formed of wire doubled upon itself and formed into a hook, the free ends of the Wire extended ICQ rearwardly and parallel with each other to the said attaching eyes, substantially as deform the shank and bent into attaching eyes, scribed. the wire forming one of said eyes being extended forwardly and formed into an addi- CORNELIUS BROSNAN 5 tional closed eye lying between the two parts Witnesses:

of the shank in a median line under the bill \VM. S. BELLOWS, 0f the hook, adjacent and at a right angle to J. D. GARFIELD. 

